Experts: The Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Crimean Tatars is a dummy
Moscow - Simferopol, January 19 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The Crimean government believes that the “Committee for the Protection of the Rights of the Crimean Tatar People”, which on Saturday addressed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Ukrainian authorities with a message about violation of the rights of the Crimean Tatars, “aggravates the situation.” Crimean officials call on the “competent authorities” of the Russian Federation to give a “legal assessment of a number of statements.”
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Chairman of the Crimean State Committee on Interethnic Issues Zaur Smirnov said “To Kommersant”, that the rights of the Crimean Tatars “are not violated,” and the new committee does not have support among the people and is “deliberately escalating the situation.” “None of these comrades approached us with complaints,” he said, calling on the “competent authorities” to give a “legal assessment of a number of statements” that were made at the conference.
Political scientist Andrei Nikiforov believes that the created committee has “no rights” to speak on behalf of the Crimean Tatar people. “There are many self-made committees you can create. And they will all have the same weight - about zero,” he said.
Political scientist Alexander Formanchuk recalled that Eskender Bariev is a supporter of Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov. According to the expert, Crimean Tatars now have “more rights and opportunities” than in the previous 23 years, and the committee’s statements will not receive “any reaction.” “The same Erdogan clearly said in December that all the problems of the Crimean Tatars should be resolved in Crimea by the Russian authorities,” he recalled.
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